This spring’s Music of the South Symposium will investigate the creation and performance of the South’s various traditional music forms. The one-day symposium, “Defining and Presenting Traditional Music,” sponsored by the Center, Living Blues magazine, and the Blues Archive, takes place on Wednesday, April 6, and features lectures, discussions, films, and musical performance.

Music of the South Symposium:Defining and Presenting Tradition in Southern Music – Wednesday, April 6, 2016

10:00 am Panel Discussion on defining, presenting, and performing traditional music
Jamey Hatley, Music Editor of Mississippi Folklife
Jennifer Jameson, Folk and Traditional Arts Director at the Mississippi Arts Commission
Drew Young, Music Programs Manager at Visit Mississippi
Ian Hominick, Associate Professor of Music and Pianist at the University of MississippiFaulkner Room, UM Archives and Special Collections

2:00 pm Lecture by Karl Hagstrom Miller, author of Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim CrowFaulkner Room, UM Archives and Special Collections

3:30 pm Discussion with the musicians of Jericho Road ShowFaulkner Room, UM Archives and Special Collections

6:30 pm Music of the South Concert by Jericho Road ShowShelter on Van Buren, 1221 Van Buren Avenue, Oxford Square

Jericho Road Show is self-described as “an all-acoustic international super-group of seasoned musicians” that plays American roots and blues music “on tubas, washboards, upright bass, harps, National guitars, ukuleles, banjos, mandolins, trombones, and yes, even the saw.”